Usually means: Decorative technique embedding materials into surfaces.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word inlay:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inlay: Merriam-Webster
  2. inlay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inlay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inlay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inlay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inlay, inlay: Wordnik
  7. inlay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inlay: Wiktionary
  9. inlay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inlay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inlay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inlay: Dictionary.com
  13. inlay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inlay (disambiguation), Inlay (furniture), Inlay (guitar), Inlay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inlay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inlay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inlay: Rhymezone
  18. Inlay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inlay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inlay: FreeDictionary.org
  21. inlay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inlay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. inlay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inlay: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. inlay: mosaic glossary
  3. Inlay: Marquetry Glossary
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inlay: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Inlay (furniture), inlay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inlay (furniture), inlay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inlay: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Inlay (furniture), inlay: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inlay: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Furnishings Guide (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (also figuratively) To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
verb:  (dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.
noun:  The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
noun:  (dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
noun:  The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.

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